Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Nightly Business Report looks at Tupperware
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Tupperware Corp. may have a reputation as being a bit old fashioned -- remember Tupperware parties? But the PBS Nightly Business Report did a story on the Orlando, Fla.-based housewares company that emphasizes Tupperware's emphasis on new products, and its...
Plastic banknotes coming to Canada
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Pretty soon, you won't be using paper money in Canada. Bank of Canada announced yesterday that starting in 2011, it will begin to issue a new series of bank notes printed on a polymer material. The new notes will incorporate...
Winning gold with high-tech equipment
Monday, March 1st, 2010
I love a good sports technology story, and The Wall Street Journal has a winner today with a look at the high-tech materials used at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The story, headlined "The Olympics of Engineering: From Heart Monitors to...
US Embassy design highlights ETFE
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene is making architectural headlines again, this time in the design of a proposed new US Embassy in London. The Los Angeles Times' Culture Monster blog had a nice review of the design this week. Here's what blogger Christopher...
Using plastic trash to make art
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Here's another one of those posts where you have to click through to see the photos. The io9 blog has a photo gallery post today titled "Nothing Is Ever Junk When It Can Be Reembodied." It features the work of...
New no-cleanup cooking concept
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
AB Electrolux has an interesting looking new concept for a cooking appliance called "Heart Of The Home." The cooker doesn't use pots and pans -- the surface is soft, and the user just presses down to create a hole, drops...
Plastics at the Super Bowl
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
A couple of plastic products are getting media attention today because of their connection with the Super Bowl. The Facts newspaper in Clute, Texas, has a feature about Dow Chemical Co.'s Primacor resin, used in the face masks for both...
Plastic Logic unveils the Que reader
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Ready to curl up with a good plastic e-reader? There will be a new one on the market very soon that highlights the benefits of plastics, with a plastic screen that may revolutionize the electronics sector. Plastic Logic LLC --...
Remembering a Pez innovator
Monday, January 4th, 2010
The New York Times posted an interesting obituary about Curtis Allina, the executive who may have come up with the idea to put plastic heads on Pez candy dispensers. Allina died on Dec. 15 at age 87. For nearly three...
Fruit protector gains attention
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Let's try to avoid the obvious double entendres and check out a new application for injection molded plastics: the Banana Guard. The product, from Aberrant Designs Inc., is made to hold bananas and keep them from getting bruised. Aberrant Designs...